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ADJUSTABLE SHADE AND GURTAIHSUPPDBT.

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ADJUSTABLE SHADE AND CURTAIN SUPPORT.

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ADJUSTABLE SHADE AND CURTAIN SUPPORT;

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Win moses UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. MYERS, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

ADJUSTABLE SHADE AND CURTAIN SUPPORT.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,012, dated January 17, 1899.

Application filed March 16, 1898-' Serial No. 674,044. CH0 model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. MYERS, a resident of Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Shade and Curtain Supports; and I do hereby declare the following to be a'full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such -as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to window shade and curtain supports, and has for its object to provide efficient and conveniently-operated devices for adj ustably supporting a shade at any desired elevation and also for suitably supporting and holding a curtain.

Theinvention consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an isometric view of the improved device applied to a window. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a curtain-pole and shade-roller supporting rod. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an adjustable shade-roller holder. Fig. 4 is an elevation of a cord-clamping device in an opera tive situation, a front housing-plate being omitted. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing the clamp inoperative, as when the cord is pulled down. the grip, the cord-guide being broken away. Fig. 6 is an isometric view of a rod-holding bracket or housingbox. Fig. 7 is a similar view of a like device of modified form, the screws whereby it may be combined with a pulley-casing being shown in section. Fig. 8 is an elevation of a modified bracket or housing for holding a rod.

Numeral 1 denotes rods held in fixed relation to the window-casing by brackets or housings 2, secured to the casing by screws 3 and provided with angular holes 4, fitting the angular parts 5 of said rods. The bracket or housing shown in Fig. 6 has a latch 6, whereby the hole is closed on its front after an angulai part of the rod has been introduced therein laterally. As shown in Figs. 7 and 3, a similar hole is closed by a plate 7, and 8 denotes screws adapted to fasten the bracket or housing to the window-frame and also to hold the plates 9, spaced apart by thimbles 10 and constituting a pulley-casing.

In Fig. 8 a modified form of the lower-rod- Fig. 5 is an isometric view of provided with an ornamental terminal of any suitable character. In the present instance balls 11 are held upon the rods by sleeves 12. The lower ends of the-rods arebent substantially as shown to hold curtains suspended from a pole above. The upper ends of the rod are bent to a horizontal position and provided with seats 12, adapted to receive and hold a curtain-pole. I

13 denotes a pole-retaining latch or spring. 14 is an ornamental rosette; but any desired terminal may be employed.

15denotes a shade-holder comprising over-- lapping members, each embraced by a loop 16, formed on an end of the other member.

17 is a sleeve embracing both members, and 18 is a set-screw.

The shade holder is connected to and guided by the rods 1 through the medium of angular brackets 19, fixed to the holder and provided with holes 20 to receive the rods in manner to permit the holder to be moved freely up or down upon the rods.

21 indicates holes for the attachment of a cord for suspending the shade and for raising or lowering the same.

22 denotes hangers adapted to receive a shade-roller of any desired kind in their lower ends. These are adjustable on the shadeholder by means of the hanger-loops 23. 24 denotes setscrews for fixing these hangers as desired.

The shade-holder 15 is raised or lowered at I will by means of a cord 41, passing over pulleys 26, 27, and 28. It is not essential that two pulleys 26 and28 be used, since a single pulley with two grooves wi1l sufiice.

Each .end of the cord is fixed to a shade-holder I single portion of the cord above the knot being extended back to pulley 2S and passed over the sheave and down to a shade-holder bracket on the right at 21. Obviously a pull on the pendent doubled cord will raise equally both ends of the shade-holder.

To partially counterbalance the weight of the shade-holder and contribute to its ease of adjustment, a weight 42, suitably concealed, may be attached to the cord immediately under knot 4:1. It is important that the weight should on1 y partially counterbalance the shade and holder. A balance has heretofore been proposed; but such device is inoperative, for the reason that in such construction a pull on the shade simply raises the weight, with the effect to move the shadeholder instead of unrollin g the shade. This is inconsistent with my improvement, which contemplates a partial balance to diminish the force required to move the curtain and an automatic clamp to hold the weighted cord, so that a pullon the shade will unroll it.

denotes a device adapted to automatic ally grip the cord.

31 denotes housing or supporting plates held in suitable relation and fixed to the window-frame by screws 32, which pass through pivotal thimbles inserted in the disks. Cordgripping disks are denoted by 33 and 34,which are eccentrically pivoted, as shown. These .jdisks may have their adjacent edges serrated or otherwise roughened to obviate slipping.

, The automatic grip is efiected by excess of weight at the right of the pivot of the disk 34:, to which the arm is fixed, whereby when free to move the arm assumes the situation indicated in Fig. 4. At such time the disk 33 is engage a suitably-formed edge 36 of disk 33 in manner to limit its movement backward or away from the cord. The disk 34 has an arm 37, perforated at 38, to receive the shademoving cord. By moving the arm to the left, so that the perforated end of the arm is at one side of a vertical line passing between the disks, they are caused to grip the cord and hold it and the arm stationary. If the arm 37 .be manipulated and moved down, so that its perforated end is immediately below the gripping-surfaces of the disks, the cord is re leased, and it can immediately-be made to release or coil the springs of the shade-holder in usual manner.

39 denotes springs fitted around rod 1 and provided with a ring or cap 40 and adapted to break the fall of the shade when the shadccarrying device is lowered upon the same. The particular form of the springs'is not essential, nor in all cases the form of the rodholding bracket nor the form of the shaderoller hangers or the ornamental or other subsidiary'parts, nor any particular proportions of the parts, and these and other details may be varied without departing from the invention, provided substantially the same principles of construction and operation are preserved. A I

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. In a curtain-fixture, the rods fixed to the window-casings and bent at their upper ends to hold a curtain-pole and at their lower ends to hold the free ends of curtains, a curtainpole supportedby said bent rods, and devices movably connected to said rods for supporting a shade support, substantially as described.

2. In an adjustable shade and curtain-pole supporting fixture, curtain-pole-supporting rods having angular portions in combination with separate detachable housings havingeach a vertical slot to receive an angular part of said rod and having a plate to close the slot, an adjustable shade-holder, and brackets attached to the ends of said shade-holder and 7 ing the lengthwise-adjustable bars each having a cord-receiving bracket, the hangers adjustable on the shade-holder to receive a shade-roller, and the shade-holder-guiding rods, substantially as described.

4. The curtain-pole-supporting rods, the pulleys fixed to the casing, the cord, the shadeholder comprising the lengthwise-adjustable bars, the adjustable hangers having their lower ends provided with hearings to receive the shade-roller journals, and cord-receiving brackets fixed to the rear side of the bars and loosely embracing the rods, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a shade-holder,mechanism comprising pulleys and a cord for movably suspending the shade-holder, a fixed de: vice comprising eccentrically-pivoted disks, one of said disks having an arm loosely connected to the cord depending between the disks and pivoted to normally move by grav- Pending between the disks, and pivoted to normally move by gravity to a cord-clamping position said disks being adapted to'be rendered inoperative by pulling the cord, and a weight attached to the cord above the clamp,

v substantially as described.

7. In a cord-gripping device, the gripping disks, the disk-supporting plates, fixed to the casing and to each other and having a continuous straight passage between them and between the proximate edges of the clamping-disks, said. disks being eccentrically pivoted to freely take a cord-clamping position by the action of gravity, a cord passing between the gripping edges of the disk, and an arm attached to one of said disks and loosely connected to the cord, all substantially as set forth, whereby the gravity of the disks may be overcome to release said cord.

8. In combinationashade-holderand shade, mechanism comprising pulleys and a cord for movably suspending the holder, an automatically-acting clamp to directly .hold the cord 'bearoppositely on the cord and positively hold it, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 1

CHARLES S. MYERS.

Witnesses:

PRESTON MYERS, JOHN F. FERGUS. 

